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80's OVERDRIVE

Nov 19, 2020 Indie $9.99
Developer Insane Code Publisher Insane Code
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Retro-leaning indie game 80's OVERDRIVE launched in 2020 from developer and publisher insane-code. On Steam it has 778 reviews with 75% positive, a mixed-to-positive signal, and an initial budget price of $9.99.

Overview

80's OVERDRIVE is a 2020 Indie game developed by Insane Code and published by Insane Code. On Steam it has gathered 480 player reviews, 75% of them positive, which counts as a mixed-to-positive reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $10. The pairing of developer Insane Code with publisher Insane Code is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Indie projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 17,000 to 40,000 units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, 80's OVERDRIVE can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

480

Positive

75%

Steam appid

1381440

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

17K to 40K

units (median: 29K)

≈ $99K to $230K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

17K median 40K
+ How is this calculated?
480 reviews × NB(60) = 28,800 median units
Factor Adjustment
base +50
year_2020 +15
price_$10 -5
positive_75% 0
final NB 60

Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].

Methodology & limitations

Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it, especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.

indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for 80's OVERDRIVE at roughly 17,000 to 40,000 copies, with a median around 29,000, derived from its 480 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $164K in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.

Price history

9 observed days · window low $0.99

Across 9 observed UTC days from 2026-07-20 to 2026-09-03, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $0.99 to $9.99. The tracked-window low was $0.99 on 2026-07-30.

$0 $5 $11 07-2007-2207-3008-1308-2009-03 2026-07-20: $9.99 2026-07-21: $9.99 2026-07-22: $9.99 2026-07-30: $0.99 2026-08-06: $9.99 2026-08-13: $9.99 2026-08-20: $9.99 2026-08-27: $9.99 2026-09-03: $0.99 2026-07-20: $9.99 2026-07-21: $9.99 2026-07-22: $9.99 2026-07-30: $0.99 (tracked-window low) 2026-08-06: $9.99 2026-08-13: $9.99 2026-08-20: $9.99 2026-08-27: $9.99 2026-09-03: $0.99 (tracked-window low) Tracked-window low: $0.99 on 2026-07-30

Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.

Where to buy

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Platforms

windows

Genres

IndieRacing

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has 80's OVERDRIVE sold?
indielist estimates 80's OVERDRIVE has sold between 17,280 and 40,320 units (median 28,800), derived from its 480 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed 80's OVERDRIVE?
80's OVERDRIVE was developed by Insane Code and published by Insane Code.
Who published 80's OVERDRIVE?
80's OVERDRIVE was published by Insane Code, developed by Insane Code. See Insane Code's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was 80's OVERDRIVE released?
80's OVERDRIVE was released in 2020.
How many reviews does 80's OVERDRIVE have on Steam?
80's OVERDRIVE has 480 Steam reviews, of which 75% are positive.
Is 80's OVERDRIVE worth playing?
Steam players rate 80's OVERDRIVE 75% positive across 480 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Ecosystem

Players looking for games like 80's OVERDRIVE can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Indie titles such as Stardew Valley, Euro Truck Simulator 2, Project Zomboid, Undertale, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Insane Code's other releases and Insane Code's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where 80's OVERDRIVE sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same 80's OVERDRIVE page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Indie game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.

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